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Issues And Approaches To Health Policy And Management (P6530)
Course lecture recordings for spring 2007. Instructor: Dr. Sherry Glied
By the conclusion of this course students will be able to:
- describe the structure, process, and outcomes of the US health care system and of its major components
- contrast the US health care system to those of other developed countries
- understand the factors that led to the development of the US health care system
- analyze the development of a health care policy
- recognize and apply basic management principles
- understand how organizations work
Public Health Impacts: Climate Change (P8304)
Course lecture recordings for spring 2007. Instructor: Dr. Kim Knowlton
The possible impact of climate change on public health is an area of growing significance and rapidly expanding research. Identifying, understanding, and predicting public health impacts draws upon a range of disciplines including atmospheric sciences, climate modeling, epidemiology, ecology, risk assessment, and public policy. Readings will cover a diverse range of topics and include extensive web-based data searches. The class will be run in a seminar-style format: intro topic briefing followed by student-led discussion & critique of relevant papers & news items. For the final project, climate-health projects will be developed and presented in class by small groups of students. Guest speakers who are experts in the multiple disciplines that inform climate-health impacts will be invited to speak throughout the semester.
Oral Histology Growth And Development (D5110)
Course lecture recordings for spring 2007. Instructor: Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn
The first objective of this course is to prepare you for the clinical treatment of growing individuals as well as the treat ment of those, who have developmental anomalies. To this end you are expected to acquire basic knowledge and, if possible, explain the scientific principles that underlie our current understanding of the events and underlying mechanisms of the normal and abnormal development and growth of the cra niofacial region. Building on earlier instruction in Human Devel opment and Human Anatomy courses the specific attributes of craniofacial growth and development are highlighted in our lec tures, laboratories and conferences.
The second and major objective of the course is to prepare you for the practice of dentistry by providing you with an in depth exposure to the structural characteristics of dental and oral tissues. Integrating and expanding on the earlier instruc tion in General Histology, the unique developmental and histolog ic aspects of dental and oral tissues, their structure, organization and function are detailed in lectures, laboratories and conferences. You are expected to acquire the knowledge and explain the scientific principles that underlie the development, structure and organization of the dental and oral tissues.
Neural Science Lab Quizzes (M5105)
Lab Quizzes for spring 2007. This is an enhanced podcast that includes pictures along with the audio. Instructor: Dr. Jack Martin.
Pathophysiology II: Cardiovascular Diseases (M6405, D6405)
Course lecture recordings for spring 2007. Instructor: Dr. Carol Waksmonski
AAC versus MP3 for Podcasts
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Podcasters have to decide which audio encoding format to use for their podcast. There are two main options, MP3 or AAC. At the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), we have chosen the AAC format. There is much debate on the merits of each format -- many of the arguments relating to their music fidelity -- but for podcasts, some different issues matter. Below, we explain some differences and the reasons for our choice.